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Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,

A bizarre hit piece in National Journal gives the false impression that our military leaders are considering removing the president.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

Seems that the answer continues to be “no.”

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

Has Petraeus provided the basic explanation for the administration’s immediate responses to Benghazi?

People continue to spread conspiracy theories explaining the “real reason” that David Petraeus’s extra-marital affair became public.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

A surprise Friday resignation at the CIA.

Will conservatives freak out if Romney loses? That’s pretty much guaranteed.

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

Entirely unsurprisingly, the shooting at the Family Research Center’s office in Washington, D.C. is already being politicized.

Examining a history that might have been.

The novelist, playwright, and social critic Gore Vidal has died, aged 86.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Good Journalism?

The GOP Establishment is in crisis, but it has nobody to blame but itself.

There’s an entire industry that profits from exploiting political controversy and division. Why do we let them get away with it?

While I’ve expressed my dissatisfaction with the degree that CPAC has embraced the worst elements of the conservative movement in recent years, it does appear that there is a line.

The tinfoil hat crowd has made its way back into the mainstream.

Another death row inmate. Another case of prosecutorial misconduct from the office of Harry Connick, Sr.

New head-scratching revelations in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.

Guess who got advance warning of government actions on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis?

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

A conspiracy theorist is never troubled by facts.

Beck is now concerned about Google.

A new book by President Reagan’s youngest son raises allegations that the former President was showing signs of Alzheimer’s Disease while still in office, and that’s led to a family feud between the two Reagan brothers.

The last thing that Haiti needed was for a former dictator to return, but that’s exactly what has happened.

There is a problem with political rhetoric in this country, but telling people to be nicer to each other isn’t going to cool it down.

It was, perhaps, inevitable that someone would attempt to draw a comparison between Saturday’s shootings in Arizona and the Oklahoma City bombing, but the two events really don’t have anything in common.